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January 19, 2006 09:00 AM UTC
22 Comments
Zzzzzzzzzzzz….
Huh? What’s this?
ColoPols – home of yesterday’s news?
Haven’t we beat this horse to death already?
BadMoon, I reread the lyrics of the old Credence song from which I assume you’ve taken your moniker. If armageddon is so imminent, why are you so angry?
Is this suprising? Holtzman is a one trick-pony, all he has done this far is hurl insults at BB and now Hick. Holtzman has no experience and no ideas to fall back on so he’s reduced to trash talking. I sure do hope he wins the primary though…
I’m sure all Jews in Colorado will be interested to learn that “Merry Christmas” is part of their heritage. Can Holzman’s sudden reinvention of himself as the candidate of Focus on the Family possibly get him elected Colorado’s governor?
George,
I reread your post, and still am left to wonder what you’re carrying on about?
BadMoon apparently hasn’t had his second cup of coffee.
Holzman has lost all credibility over the past few days. This guy is worse than the Hick; a prostitute to the media. And, if he thinks he can become governor by sitting on Dobson’s lap, I think he underestimates the electorate…even in El Paso county.
Gosh, there sure is a lot of anger and vitriol being cast towards a candidate who supposedly doesn’t stand a chance.
Great minds are still running in the same channel, George. 😉 Even a good tory like Gecko in Colorado Springs draws the line at the religious right stuff. And I love Holtman trying to spin the baby Jesus creche as “judeo-Christian.”
What part of the New Testament doesn’t this idiot understand? (He certainly never read Paul’s letter to the Galatians.) Christmas is as integral to the Jewish tradition as barbecued pork!
Bad Moon, I think there is so much vitriol just because this guy is such a total f***ing idiot.
Gosh, there sure is a lot of anger and vitriol being cast towards a candidate who supposedly doesn’t stand a chance.
The two are not related, at least not in the way that you are implying. Holtzman is a one trick pony with no experience and no message – that is why he has no chance.
But hey, I’m a Democrat so I hope Holtzman wins the primary.
Both Repub candidates are coocoo bananas. The only difference is, Holtzmann comes with nuts and sprinkles, while Beauprez comes with slime. After every mailing I get from Beauprez, I feel like I need a shower.
Colorado is going Coo-Coo for HoltzmanPuffs!
I would recommend Dems change registration to vote in the Republican primary and make sure this nut job goes up against our guy, regardless of who it is. Ritter, Hick, whatshisnamefromBreck, they all trounce Holtzman in a general.
While there has been plenty of specualtion as to whether the whole campaign has started too early, the question now should be: has Holtzman marginalized himself too early? He went from rich guy building name recognition to flat out weirdo in about two days time.
Man – it took Tancredo years to build up that sort of whack job credibility!
Christmas wasn’t invented until long after the events recounted in the New Testament were over and no branch of Christianity of which I am aware claims that it is the real birthday of Jesus Christ, if there was one, anyway. Furthermore, most Focus on the Family types take it as an article of faith that they should try to emulate the “early Church”, so why should they care about this holiday adopted to co-opt Roman pagan practice and traditions? The earliest European-Americans weren’t very into Christmas. The folks who came over on the Mayflower made it a crime to celebrate the holiday in their colonies.
And, for the Catholics out there, the Roman Catholic Church has a long tradition of serving as a sanctuary for those who are accused of having violated the law without regard to their actual guilt. The very name sanctuary, with which Holtzman derides Denver, has its roots deep in the sacred Denver tradition. It is certainly not the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Denver to deny spiritual and material aid to immigrants (the majority of whom in Denver are Catholic) out of respect for federal immigration laws.
I also don’t remember much in the Judeo-Christian tradition that is against illegal immigration. Exodus is the story of the Jews illegally emigrating from Egypt to the Promised Land, and avoided death in the deserts of the Sinai only through divine intervention (not unlike that which Republicans seek to criminalize). The Egyptian border patrol ended up at the bottom of the Red Sea, and the welcoming committee at the other end of the trip had Armies to great them. Jesus him self grew up as a refugee in Egypt, who left travelling by night (presumably to avoid authorities that would have prevented an illegal emmigration) if you believe Matthew 2:13-23. Deuteronomy in Chapters 14, 23-27 has a lot to say about how would should treat aliens. For example, Deut. 27:19 states, ?Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.”
I also don’t recall the bit in the Bible about “thou shalt not smoke pot.” Jesus certainly wasn’t against inebriation. His first miracle was to turn water into wine at Cannah, so that the guest could drink more, at a time when most of the guests were almost too drunk to notice its quality having already consumed the wine supplies set aside for the event. Of course, I wouldn’t be the first person to suggest that Revelations suggests that author John was expressing himself in a manner which, if not drug induced, certainly resembles the kind of visions those who have had a bit to much THC sometimes experience.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine anything which is more of a secularist agenda, in the sense that it has no religious basis, than a policy of trying to enforce an immigration regime based upon secular nation-state boundaries, whose arbitrary nature is particularly evident in Colorado, some parts of which were once parts of France. (See this map: http://www.mohonasen.org/grade5/lpurch1.jpg), only 203 years ago, and other parts of which were part of Mexico even more recently.
Christmas wasn’t invented until long after the events recounted in the New Testament were over and no branch of Christianity of which I am aware claims that it is the real birthday of Jesus Christ, if there was one, anyway. Furthermore, most Focus on the Family types take it as an article of faith that they should try to emulate the “early Church”, so why should they care about this holiday adopted to co-opt Roman pagan practice and traditions? The earliest European-Americans weren’t very into Christmas. The folks who came over on the Mayflower made it a crime to celebrate the holiday in their colonies.
And, for the Catholics out there, the Roman Catholic Church has a long tradition of serving as a sanctuary for those who are accused of having violated the law without regard to their actual guilt. The very name sanctuary, with which Holtzman derides Denver, has its roots deep in the sacred Denver tradition. It is certainly not the position of the Roman Catholic Church in Denver to deny spiritual and material aid to immigrants (the majority of whom in Denver are Catholic) out of respect for federal immigration laws.
I also don’t remember much in the Judeo-Christian tradition that is against illegal immigration. Exodus is the story of the Jews illegally emigrating from Egypt to the Promised Land, and avoided death in the deserts of the Sinai only through divine intervention (not unlike that which Republicans seek to criminalize). The Egyptian border patrol ended up at the bottom of the Red Sea, and the welcoming committee at the other end of the trip had Armies to great them. Jesus him self grew up as a refugee in Egypt, who left travelling by night (presumably to avoid authorities that would have prevented an illegal emmigration) if you believe Matthew 2:13-23. Deuteronomy in Chapters 14, 23-27 has a lot to say about how would should treat aliens. For example, Deut. 27:19 states, ?Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.”
I also don’t recall the bit in the Bible about “thou shalt not smoke pot.” Jesus certainly wasn’t against inebriation. His first miracle was to turn water into wine at Cannah, so that the guest could drink more, at a time when most of the guests were almost too drunk to notice its quality having already consumed the wine supplies set aside for the event. Of course, I wouldn’t be the first person to suggest that Revelations suggests that author John was expressing himself in a manner which, if not drug induced, certainly resembles the kind of visions those who have had a bit to much THC sometimes experience.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine anything which is more of a secularist agenda, in the sense that it has no religious basis, than a policy of trying to enforce an immigration regime based upon secular nation-state boundaries, whose arbitrary nature is particularly evident in Colorado, some parts of which were once parts of France. (See this map: http://www.mohonasen.org/grade5/lpurch1.jpg), only 203 years ago, and other parts of which were part of Mexico even more recently.
Wow… so much ‘stuff’… twice even.
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?”
*Whew*
Because when the going gets tough…
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It seems like a pretty clear strategy to me. Holtzman knows there is a possibility that Hickenlooper will jump in and immediately become the Dem frontrunner. Making these comments was an attempt to stake out a position as Hickenlooper’s right-wing rival.
Nobody is doubting the strategy here, but the comments are pretty absurd. There is a way to knock your opponent without sounding like a lunatic.
Headline: Republican Candidate Attacks Potential Democrat Candidate For Being Too Liberal!
THE HORROR!!!
UNIMAGINABLE!!!
HE’S LOST IT!!!
Hi, I’m Marc Holtzman. I’m crazier than a shithouse rat, and I want to be your next Governor.
Now THAT’s a platform. Brilliant strategy.
Oh yeah P.S. – Beauprez stole my list and Hick is trying to take Christmas away from all of us.
Maybe the Dead Govs would be happier if Holtzman took a page from Both Ways Bob’s playbook and just ignored everyone running against him.
You can’t ignore the other candidates (or prospective candidates) when you’ve already made them the focus of their campaign.
You can ignore when you are on the top, not the bottom.